Reddit mentions of Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest

There are so many tales of such for Everest, many of which are not exactly pretty. I am not sure how anyone can point fingers to her under such extreme conditions.


Still, I think her response (respect different voices, but disagree the thinking behind such questions) is pretty measured and diplomatic - I guess it comes from being a teacher?

I know literally nothing about Everest, and have never gone anywhere you can't plug in a hairdryer, but I've read a few books about climbing, and I'm pretty sure it's nowhere near that simple. Mountains aren't perfect triangles. You have to climb up and down and up and down, and sometimes you start climbing down and realize you're facing a crevasse and you have to go back up, or you have to spend days scrambling across a field of rocks.

In this case, the girlfriend fell early on and may have been too injured to walk, and within a pretty short timeframe they both would have been too weak to make it down alive. It probably made more sense to find shelter and wait for rescue.

Edit: Into Thin Air, Dead lucky, and Touching the Void are all really good reads, if you're interested. Lincoln Hall's story was made into a documentary, and the 2015 Everest movie is pretty good.

I thought that Dead Lucky was more moving.

I'm mentioned in this book.